When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls under Stick's charming spell over the course of several delirious nights. As the two of them bond over the nature of reality, virtual and otherwise, Stick begins empowering Doug to take back control of his life...but to what end?
Acting
Poulson's deadpan desperation meets Faulkner's chaotic charisma
Direction
Kotlyarenko weaponizes cringe comedy into genuine unease
Writing
Dialogue that sounds improvised but cuts like a screenplay
Director
Eugene Kotlyarenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kotlyarenko shot this in actual tech offices during off-hours, using real startup employees as extras. The cringe is documentary-level authentic.
This film predicted the 'vibe shift' discourse by two years—Doug's transformation from cuck to chaos agent mirrors every exhausted millennial's secret fantasy.
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